Fleur van Leusden
Ten year security expert. Much of which for the government.
Not a well behaved woman.
Session
For a long time I believed cybersecurity was a meritocracy; Work hard. Be good at your job. Speak the truth. The best person gets the role.
That’s the story we like to tell ourselves.
After more than 10 years in the field, much of it as a CISO, I’ve collected enough experiences to file a bug report against that idea.
In this talk I’ll share some of the greatest hits from my career: interviewing for a CISO job that didn’t actually exist, being told I’d make a great CISO “one day” while already being one, spending six hours in an assessment where my cybersecurity skills were never tested, and being advised by a psychologist to focus on raising my kids instead of pursuing leadership.